Earthquake potential of active faults in Taiwan from GPS observations and block modeling

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Title:	Earthquake potential of active faults in Taiwan from GPS observations and block modeling
Authors:	張午龍;Chang, Wu-Lung;Ching, Kuo-En;Lee, Chiou-Hsien;Lee, Yi-Rui;Lee, Chi-Fang
Contributors:	地球科學學院地球科學學系
Keywords:	active faults;Asia;earthquakes;Far East;faults;geologic hazards;Global Positioning System;ground motion;horizontal movements;natural hazards;plate boundaries;plate tectonics;seismic risk;Seismology;slip rates;Structural geology;Taiwan;three-dimensional models;velocity
Date:	2016-11-01
Issue Date:	2026-04-23 11:32:24 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	Seismological Society of America
Abstract:	摘要： Taiwan is located at the boundary between the Philippine Sea plate and the passive continental margin of the Eurasian plate and is one of the most seismically active regions in the world. In an attempt to evaluate the seismogenic potential of active faults in Taiwan, we separated the region into 34 blocks with 27 known active faults as their boundaries and employed a 3D elastic block modeling method to invert the Global-Positioning-System-measured surface deformation for block rotations and the fault coupling. Additional constraints from an up-to-date dataset of geologic fault-slip rates were introduced to reconcile the discrepancy between the geodetically and geologically determined long-term slip rates. Our results show that the Hsinhua fault and the southern part of the Longitudinal Valley fault may be weakly coupled near the surface and therefore experience shallow creeping in the interseismic period. The slip-deficit rates, which relate to how fast the elastic strain is accumulated on faults, are relatively low (0.8-2.2 mm/yr) for faults in northern Taiwan compared with up to 4 mm/yr in the Western foothill of the central and southwestern Taiwan. Evaluations of earthquake potential based on our new modeling results indicate that the frontal thrust and the westernmost branch faults of central Taiwan and the northern Longitudinal Valley fault of eastern Taiwan are capable of generating Mw 6.0-7.3 earthquakes in the next few decades. 出版者： Seismological Society of America 出版日期： 2016-11-01 出處： Seismological Research Letters, 2016-11, Vol.87 (6), p.1274-1286 版權： GeoRef, Copyright 2020, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from GeoScienceWorld Alexandria, VA USA United States. Abstract, Copyright, Seismological Society of America 識別號： ISSN: 0895-0695 識別號： EISSN: 1938-2057 識別號： DOI: 10.1785/0220160094
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